Obaidullah ObaidiCIO| Central Bank of AfghanistanKabul, Kabul, Afghanistan
Dear Experts and Friends,
As all of you know better that the majority of question in PMP exam is Situational and most of the questions ask "what project manager should do next" what is the best technic to prepare for such questions? Either memorize and understand ITTOs or any other suggestion please. Saving Changes...
Abdulrahman AbuhayahP.M.O Director| Adaptive TechSoftRiyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
One small idea that helped me a lot regarding situational cases and questions is: try always to think of it in a simplified way, consider your self in the situation and you have to make the decision without any consequences ( what I mean is that don't over think it too much), what you will do? take it easy and don't complicate things in your mind, then, what is your choice?. This rule will help you tremendously if you have the concepts, the knowledge, and the practice. Saving Changes...
ANTRONE PORTERFacility Advisor, Project Coordinator| AlutiiqDacula, Ga, United States
HI Obaidullah: Always remember that you need to think in terms of; "What would a PMI-PMP do in this situation"? Saving Changes...
Rajul ShrivastavaProject Lead| Centurylink Technologies India Pvt LtdBangaluru, Karnataka, India
But Still do we have any better way of getting into the right decision with respect to PMP exams Saving Changes...
Markus KopkoAI Enabler for Project & Program Mgmt | Founder PMotion.ai / The PM
AI Coach| PMotion.aiHamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Hi,
memorizing all the ITTOs is not necessary and even trying is just a waste of time especially in the context of the situational questions.
Please refer to the following guide for how to manage that ITTO stuff:
I usually try to find obviously wrong answers first. Meaning something you would have done before but is listed as an answer or something that comes much later in the process but is also given as a possible answer. Knowing all ITTOs and process order is necessary to understand what's first or what should come next.
Then I follow these PMI-isms I made up myself during my PMP preparation:
1. Analyze first!
2. Be proactive!
3. What's best for the project?
This usually helped to figure out the best answer for situational questions. Saving Changes...
When we have situational questions , the answers should be arrived as if we are that situation. Consider all the relevant risks in front of that situation . Consider the consequences of answers given in the options. Answer which has least risks will be best action to the situational question.
All, Share your thoughts on my above comments.
Thanks. Saving Changes...
Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
There is not way to prepare for them unless you have project management expertise.You have to understand the PMBOK dynamic (which is not explicit but you can make a picture in your brain thinking about the Plan-Do-Check-Act dynamic) and you have to understand that you must answer what the PMI expect as an answer and not what you did as project manager in the same situation. Saving Changes...
Adnan ShareefEPMO Director| JEDCO (Jeddah Airports Company)Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Exam simulators & mock exams should guide you through since they are full of situational questions. At least you will get used to it. Saving Changes...
Ramachandran SwaminathanRegional Delivery Manager| Oracle Consulting IndiaBangalore, Karnataka, India
I concur with Tina's advice. In every question, there are 4-5 choices given.
Knock off the answers which you think wouldnt qualify as an answer at all. I am sure couple of them can be easily knocked-off just looking at them.
Now comes the next two. At the outset, it may look like both are correct.
This is where you PMBOK knowledge and PM experience will come in handy and I would say your PM experience would play out here as Sergio suggested Saving Changes...
ADARSH SADANANDANPM II| NATIONAL OILWELL VARCODubai, United Arab Emirates
I guess it is not a matter of memorizing .In order to answer situational questions, we have to relate the question to the sequence mentioned in PMBOK and then it becomes easy to crack.
If you can correlate the question to the sequence, then you are done. This was the tactic, I used and it worked really well.
I would suggest to go with Rita PMP Prep as it is user-friendly whereas PMBOK is just a specification or guideline and it does not give us much explanation or examples. Saving Changes...
